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Barcelona police chief subpoenaed for protest eviction

The Barcelona police chief, Joan Carles Molinero, has been subpoenaed as a defendant over the forceful eviction of protesters from Plaza de Catalunya on May 27. Court testimony from another police official established it was Molinero who coordinated police action…

Spain’s unrepentant Holocaust denier

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Spain’s unrepentant Holocaust denier

The papers are beginning to pile up inside the jail cell of Pedro Varela Geiss. The bookstore owner who is serving time in a Barcelona prison for promulgating literature denying the Holocaust has received more than 1,000 fan letters. People…

Spain’s unrepentant Holocaust denier

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Spain’s unrepentant Holocaust denier

The papers are beginning to pile up inside the jail cell of Pedro Varela Geiss. The bookstore owner who is serving time in a Barcelona prison for promulgating literature denying the Holocaust has received more than 1,000 fan letters. People…

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Jailed book vendor back in trouble over neo-Nazi titles

Pedro Varela Geiss, the Barcelona bookseller condemned for disseminating genocidal propaganda, spends most of his time in jail reading. Occasionally, he draws or writes letters and goes to the gym when he is allowed. But, mostly, he just reads. So…

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Judge to quiz police chiefs over Barcelona 15-M charge

A Barcelona judge has ordered the principal political and police overseers of the regional Mossos d’Esquadra and the city’s security force to appear in court over the forced removal of 15-M movement protestors from the Plaza de Cataluña last May…

Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead

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Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead

The death of a 32-year-old Senegalese man in Barcelona has lit the touchpaper of simmering ethnic conflict in the Besòs neighborhood of the Catalan capital. The victim, Ibrahima Dyei, died after being shot during an argument over a game of…

Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead

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Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead

The death of a 32-year-old Senegalese man in Barcelona has lit the touchpaper of simmering ethnic conflict in the Besòs neighborhood of the Catalan capital. The victim, Ibrahima Dyei, died after being shot during an argument over a game of…

Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead

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Unrest flares in Barcelona after Senegalese man is shot dead

The death of a 32-year-old Senegalese man in Barcelona has lit the touchpaper of simmering ethnic conflict in the Besòs neighborhood of the Catalan capital. The victim, Ibrahima Dyei, died after being shot during an argument over a game of…

Spanish court says "nein" to neo-Nazi bookseller

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Spanish court says "nein" to neo-Nazi bookseller

Adolf Hitler has landed a Spanish neo-Nazi in legal hot waters. Pedro Varela Geiss, the Barcelona librarian who was jailed for disseminating genocidal ideas, will sit on the dock again soon. But this time it will not be for selling…

"Robin Hood of the banks" goes on trial for protest swindle

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"Robin Hood of the banks" goes on trial for protest swindle

He calls himself “the Robin Hood of the banks.” Between 2006 and 2008, Enric Duran Giralt allegedly swindled some 38 banks by taking out loans and cash advances he never intended to pay back.…

Badalona mayor in court over anti-Gypsy flyers

Xavier García Albiol, the controversial Popular Party (PP) mayor of Catalonia’s third-biggest city, Badalona, on Wednesday admitted before a judge that he had committed a “verbal excess” when branding Romanian Gypsies a “menace” who “have come exclusively to commit crimes.”…

Building blocks of religious discontent

Building blocks of religious discontent

Muslims and Evangelists are going to find it harder to open new mosques and churches after the regional government of Catalonia decided to reform a law passed in 2009 to include the words “tradition” and “history” as factors to be…

‘Biutiful’ producer fined for damaging father’s tomb

‘Biutiful’ producer fined for damaging father’s tomb

Barcelona City Hall and the producer of Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñarritu’s Oscar-nominated film starring Javier Bardem, have been ordered to pay 20,000 euros to a woman for damaging and altering her father’s tomb. A court ruled the woman had the…